Love This TV Episode: The Great Herring War

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opEigpvhJRE

 OH NO!!!! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO??????  😨

Synagogue sextons concerned: Shortage of herring possible on Simchat Torah

Three million herring stuck on the way to Israel, creating concerns among sextons of local synagogues over a possible shortage.

Three million herring are stuck on the way to Israel, creating concerns among the gabbaim (sextons) of local synagogues over a possible shortage ahead of the holiday of Simchat Torah.

In many synagogues, it is customary to serve herring at the Kiddush on Simchat Torah and Shabbat Beresheet.

The haredi news website Behadrei Haredim reported that there is talk in Jewish food stores of a shortage of herring that will be felt already during the Sukkot holiday, and the shortage is already evident at the larger retailers.

The ship that transports the fish has not yet arrived at the port and it was stopped several days ago at the sea border crossings due to the fact that it brought with it too large a quantity of herring.

source:https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377635

 Time For Some Herring Literature!!

https://www.waterstones.com/book/herring-tales/donald-s-murray/9781399409148

 

 

 

ANGRY KOSHER FISH

 

 SOME HERRING HISTORY: THE GIANT HERRING (May 12, 2010)

source: https://phys.org/news/2010-05-eleven-foot-giant-herring-sweden.amp

A man measures a rare specimen of a species known as the 'King of Herrings' or Giant Oarfish (Regalecus glesne) 

of 3.5 metres (11.4 feet) in length in Bovallstrand, on the western coast of Sweden, May 11. 

The fish was found near a Marine museum where a fish of this size has not been seen in 130 years.

A "giant herring" measuring 3.5 metres (11.4 feet) has been discovered off Sweden's western coast -- the first such fish found in the Scandinavian country in more than 130 years, a maritime museum said Tuesday.

The Regalecus glesne, known as the King of Herrings or Giant Oarfish, was found dead in the small fishing village of Bovallstrand on Sweden's west coast, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) from the Norwegian border.

"Down at the water, there was something big floating. At first we thought it was a big piece of plastic. But then we saw an eye. I went down to check and saw that it was this extremely strange fish," Kurt Ove Eriksson, the passer-by who found the specimen, told daily Svenska Dagbladet.

The rarely seen regalecus, the world's longest bony fish, can reach up to 12 meters.

"The last time we saw a King of Herrings in Sweden was in 1879," the House of the Sea museum in Lysekil, where the fish was taken to, said in a statement.

"We don't know much about the species," it said, "but believe it lives in deep waters, at least 1000 meters (3280 feet) deep, and many believe it's at the origin of the sea serpent myth," or stories of mythological sea creatures like the Loch Ness Monster.

The dead fish, which was frozen at the museum, had a deep cut through its body and was missing its beautiful, typical back fin, the museum said, adding the fish might be added to an exhibit on sea monsters planned later this year.

 WAIT A MINUTE-- WHERE'S THE HOLY HERRING???  😆

 

Why the Dutch LOVE herring 

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amQXvSTtfOo